If you are working as a freelance designer or working for a creative agency, having a proper portfolio is absolutely mandatory.

Most of the time, clients not only expect you to have a website showcasing your works, but also expect that website to be impressive beyond imagination.

A good website not only attracts potential customers, but also impresses others in the community, thereby winning you both financial profit and community respect. For today’s WordPress Wednesday we take a look at some of the 12 of the best premium WordPress themes for Agencies, Designers and Freelancers.

Pulse is a Premium Photography WordPress Theme with a very unique layout. It’s equally adept at showcasing design or photography projects. Its page templates accommodates multiple galleries, each with as many images as you want. The theme was made to not only look and behave great in the latest desktop browsers, but in tablet and smartphone browsers via responsive CSS as well.

It is built to support new HTML5 elements and syntax and progressively enhanced with CSS3 components for ultimate style.

Parker is a onepage theme designed for creatives who want to manage their website in a brand new way, using the slides vertical progression. Every theme slide is composed by a different page, so you can publish different contents in the homepage: blog posts, portfolio posts, maps and contact forms. Realized for WordPress 3.5, depicts a new way to publish your own content, giving total freedom to your imagination.

Flip’d is a super awesome Premium WordPress Theme with oodles of features. Flip’d comes packed with our brand new options panel ‘Builder’. Builder makes it super simple to configure your site and get up and running as fast as possible! Flip’d is suitable for absolutely any type of site, portfolio, showcase, creative, business, blog, this theme can do it all!

Simple Portfolio has been specifically crafted for personal portfolios or small design firms. Responsive design means users will be able to browse the site in all kinds of screen sizes. Built with HTML5 and CSS3. This is one of the few Plug&Play themes. Simple Portfolio requires little to no setup other than just uploading the theme files and images.

The theme options panel allows you to control every aspect of the site, along with detailed documentation explaining step by step.

Artist is a 100% Responsive theme created for illustrators, videographers, photographers, and other creatives looking to present their work on an ultra-professional website. It embraces cutting-edge design trends & tech, looks amazing, and is guaranteed to adapt to your unique style of work. Further, the entire site revolves around your work and personality. It puts your work first and foremost, ensuring that your audience will know exactly what type of creative professional they are about to meet. More importantly, it raises you above the competition through pristine technology and unprecedented sharing abilities. Once you dig in, we’re positive that you’ll be amazed by how powerful this theme truly is.

Dano is the Multi-purpose and Responsive theme for Business and Agency website. It’s easy to customize the homepage layout, You can create the homepage section via the Home Page Section Builder and reorder the sections via Drag and drop layout manager. Fully responsive supports: from 1680px to 240px and optimized for mobile devices.

Everest theme is a super clean, incredibly flexible, and fully responsive WordPress theme. Built with HTML5 and CSS3 and with a super easy to use, yet insanely powerful admin panel that enables you to quickly alter all colors and images for text including links, set page / header and footer backgrounds and menu colors. Everything is simple to change making this the only theme you need. For those using this for clients, adapting to their existing brand colors so quickly, will mean money back in your pocket.

SimpleKey is a multi-purpose one page WordPress Theme. It’s suit for show your portfolios or introduct your company services, and if you are a iPhone or Andriod APP developer, you can also use it for your APP product introduction, if you don’t have those business needs, it’s also can be a simple blog theme for your daily writing.

There are 33 shortcodes ready for your easily customize, you will be able to show your portfolios, recent tweets, team introduction,pricetable or a mobile compatibility slider and so on. Detailed document and example data xml will help you to get started easily, if you are looking for this kind of theme just in time, please pay more attention to this theme and also consider purchase it, thanks in advance!

Slideside is an incredibly flexible multi-purpose theme that can be used for almost anything. Stand out with a unique and creative layout. It scales down beautifully on any device and thanks to the toggle sidebar you don’t need to waste any screen space on tablets.

Fresh is wonderful, professional and easy to use template with lots of options and configurations. This theme has been created for people who want to save their own time for create nice and great looking page. Fresh is our simple and clean one page portfolio WP theme. It’s perfect for any designer, photographer, illustrator, creative person or agency. It focuses on displaying a high quality portfolio, large typo presented in a really elegant way.